I like Rebecca Solnit's emphasis on optimism and the need for solidarity across boundary lines that might otherwise divide us on the liberal-progressive side of the ledger.
As a US Southerner, I find the optimism less easy to muster than people out West, whose historical experience is different from mine, might do. But I'm absolutely on board with Solnit's understanding of the need for soldarity and how to form it.
She writes:

How Big Should Your Tent Be?
It's striking to me that a lot of people want politics to be about their personal feelings, in which case they're not engaged in politics, though they may be engaged in the sabotage of politics. This is why I declared that "voting is a chess move, not a valentine," all








